“…In order to compare these low-cost biosorbents with other reported materials, the maximum uptake for DCF and TMP were compared to data from other studies (Table S5.). Excluding the important synthesis costs involved, uptake of DCF here by biochar was not as efficient as for activated carbons (Bhadra et al, 2017, Bhadra et al, 2016, Sotelo et al, 2014, grape bagasse (Antunes et al, 2012) and organoclays (De Oliveira et al, 2017); but was more efficient than for molecularly imprinted polymer (Madikizela and Chimuka, 2016), sericite hybrid materials (Tiwari et al, 2015), silica-based materials (Bui andChoi, 2009, Suriyanon et al, 2013) and even some carbon nanotubes (Czech and Oleszczuk, 2016). TMP uptake by macro-algae was higher than for a powdered activated carbon (Bonvin et al, 2016), biosorbents derived from sewage sludge (Nielsen and Bandosz, 2016) and montmorillonite (Vidal et al, 2015); but lower than for certain types of activated carbon (Kim et al, 2010, Liu et al, 2012.…”